Blood Dripping Fingertips by Meghan Escott (read ebook pdf .txt) 📕

“What did she do?” Sam asked Josh referring to me.
“She was doing magic. Levitation and movement of objects.” Josh replied sounding matter of fact.
“What did she levitate and move?” Sam asked urgently,
“A pen, a book, a chair, a table and me.” Josh replied. Sam gasped and shook his head.
“Is there a way of taking the class somewhere else or taking Lucy somewhere else Professor. This isn’t something they will want to be seeing.” Referring to the rest of the students.
“Take her into my office and draw the blinds across. I will make sure nobody takes one look at my office.” Professor Heyla said and unlocked her office door. Sam lifted me up and walked into the office, Professor Heyla closing it behind us. He places a pillow down on the floor and then lays me on the floor with my head on the pillow. He then moves to close the blinds. I see Josh’s face just before my vision goes blurry and I pass out.
When I come round, Sam is bending over me with his wrist over my mouth. I start sucking and start to regain my strength. When I try to pull away, Sam forced his wrist against my mouth. He does this every time I pull away until he is satisfied that I am healthy again.
“If you’re planning to use substantial energy all at once like that, you need a bottle of blood from your fridge. They get restocked weekly so don’t worry about running out. I would recommend you bring one to every Spells and Witchcraft lesson you have just to be sure.” Sam said while I sat up and looked at the time. I still had about ten minutes of Spells and Witchcraft lesson and I wanted to get back to it so I could anticipate what I was going to be doing the next lesson.
“Thanks for the advice Sam.” I said standing up, balancing myself on a chair. He got up and came over to me.
“We need to test you for magical ability. I will organise a test on the weekend so you have time to recover from classes before we have to test you.” Sam said opening the door to the office.
I walked out the best I could but before I could fall over, Sam was steadying me and leading me over to my chair. As I got to it, I sat down in it and propped my elbow against the desk. Josh came over to me from his seat and asked if I was al right I nodded but Sam answered in more detail for me.
“She just needs some rest. I recommend you don’t do survival Lucy. That will just wear you out even more. I will go there now and explain why you are not taking part today.” Sam says to me and Josh. Somehow he has found out about me and Josh though I didn’t tell him. That’s why he’s agitated. Because I am with Josh!
Sam leaves the room to do what he said he would do and Professor Heyla resumes the end of the class. She and Josh keep on giving me nervous glances.
When the bell goes, I try to stand up. I prop myself up on the table the first time but the second time, I am fine and I can walk as well. Josh comes over to me and holds my hand so if I fall, he can easily pull me back up. We got about halfway there until I needed to stop to get my breath back. Josh stayed with me and helped me the remainder of the journey.
When we got there, the lesson was in full swing and I and Josh were late. I pulled up a chair and sat down at the end of the hall while Josh went to get changed into some basketball gear. When he came out, he began to do some shots getting further and further away from the net. He missed most of them but at least he was trying.
I was so engrossed with watching Josh that I didn’t realise Sam was behind me until he coughed and I turned around to face him. He had pulled up another chair next to me and he wanted to talk to me.
“I don’t mind you being with Josh, by the way. I’m angry because you didn’t think you could tell me about him. I’m your mentor and it’s my job to listen even if I don’t like it. Don’t come to the feeding room at second break. I’ll give you more blood in Mental Activity lesson later. Remember, you can tell me anything.” Sam said, then moved his chair back and left the room.
“What did Sam want?” Josh said when he came over seconds after Sam had left the room.
“He just wanted to say that I could tell him anything and that he approves of us being together.” I said and Josh bent down and hugged me. “I got to get back to playing. See you in a bit.” Josh said and then ran off towards the basketball net. I spent the rest of the lesson admiring Josh and watching his every move.
When the bell went, Josh got changed then helped me up and into the hall where he helped me sit down beside him. I had told him on the way that Sam didn’t need me now and Josh seemed glad about that. He didn’t like the idea of me biting Sam. I gripped Josh’s hand under the table again and watched out for Angela.
She spotted us before we spotted her and came over to us. She sat down opposite me and ducked under the table, spotted we were holding hands then came back up. “What happened to you in S and W class? Someone told me that you were doing magic then passed out of something. What happened? “Angela asked me sounding worried.
“I was elevating things. Professor asked me to do a person to see whether I could do it. I did it but I came out of it out of breath and really tired. Professor sent someone for Sam. He came, took me into the teachers office and then I passed out.” I said back to her. “The next thing I remember was feeling fine, sitting on the floor of Professor Heyla’s office. “
Josh squeezed my hand under the table in thanks. He obviously knew what actually happened in the office and he didn’t want to be told about it. I squeezed his hand back and he smiled at me.
The rest of second break, we talked about normal stuff and me and Josh made a study date for the next day to help each other with their Combat essay. I told Angela about what Sam said in survival and she immediately got up and walked out of the hall. Josh seemed confused at that but I knew that Angela was going to find Sam and try and get him back to the plan that they had made together.
Josh and I sat for the rest of second break and talked about music, people, teachers, who’s dating who. This time when I brought up the subject he didn’t become quiet and edgy, he just joined in and pointed out people who were together, who just broke up or who are hitting on whom.
When the bell went me and Josh got up and linked hands on the way to my room. Josh had to pass my room to get to his so he walked me back.
When we got back to my room, there was a girl stood outside it. She had purple dyed hair and brown eyes. When she saw me and Josh round the corner she came over to Josh.
“I figured you’d be with her.” Nodding her head in my direction. “Mum called, she wants to speak to you about her. She heard about today by Mat. I know about today and I’m not happy about it. Why her Josh?” She said to Josh, nodding in my direction and looking at our hands linked whenever she said ‘her’.
“Lucy. This is my half sister Annie and Mat is my half brother. He was in Spells and Witchcraft with us today. Annie is a year ahead of me.” Josh said to me then turned to Annie. “Is mum on the phone now?” She nodded. “Tell her I will be on the phone in a bit. And tell Mat that I want to see him.”
Annie walked away down the hall and round the corner. She gave me a dirty look just before turning the corner and then turned and went. Josh squeezed my hand and I looked up at him.
“She’s not that scary when she gets to know you. She is just freaked out by the magic thing. I’ve got to go and see what my mum wants. She never calls and when she does, she means business. I’ll come by after your Mental Activity lesson.” Josh said to me when we got to my door. I hugged him and he kissed me on the cheek and then went.
As I walked into my room, Sam was in the same place as yesterday with another note pad and pen. I walked over to him and sat in the same place as yesterday. He held out his hand palm up and I put my right arm into it. He undid the bandages and placed my arm on the table in front of him. I hadn’t dared try to heal the cuts that Sam had made the day before so they were scabbing over. Sam put his fingers over each cut one at a time and they started to heal. It was quite painful but I think that was the lesson.
We did the same thing as yesterday apart from the cutting thing. Sam didn’t talk at all apart from in his mind which I had to pick up. It was easy because I had done all of it before now.
When the lesson finished, Sam picked up his notebook and his pen and put them in a bag which I hadn’t noticed under the table. He then held out his wrist to me. I bit into it and drunk what I needed then pulled away from him. He healed the cuts and then walked over to the door. Opened it to find Josh outside about to knock.
I went over to Josh and gave him a hug. Sam smiled at me then walked out of the door and shut it behind him. Josh hugged me back and then pulled away. He took hold of my hand and led me over to my couch. We both sat down next to each other. He took both of my hands in his and looked down.
“My